The Monomet Conservation Sciences has released its 2025 State of the Birds report. The report reveals accelerating declines in bird populations across the continent of North America. These declines ...

The scarlet macaw population in Central America’s largest wilderness area had dwindled drastically. The Indigenous Miskito people stepped in to help save them. A scarlet macaw perches on a tree branch ...

Newly shared images show a cohort of 26 young scarlet macaws (Ara macao) released into the forest, part of ongoing efforts to buoy their populations in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve. “All of us ...

On April 21, 2013, the first flock of scarlet macaws (of many more to come) was released into the jungles of Aluxes Ecopark, nearby classified World Heritage Site Palenque National Park, as a part of ...

Deep in one of the world’s most arid deserts, people living centuries ago displayed their status by keeping an unlikely pet: the scarlet macaw, a large and demanding parrot imported from tropical ...

The image of red, blue and yellow missiles streaking across the skies amid a chorus of squawks is iconic. The lapa roja, or scarlet macaw, which lives between 40 and 75 years, can be found in ...

Lee ATK, Brightsmith DJ, Vargas MPN, et al. Diet and geophagy across a western Amazonian parrot assemblage. Biotropica. 2014;46(3):322–330. 3. Brightsmith DJ, Hobson EA, Martínez G. Food availability ...

A previous study that I shared with you indicated that Indigenous people started breeding parrots in captivity more than 1000 years ago (more here). That study found evidence that macaws lived in ...

One endangered parrot species just got a major boost: A whopping 20 scarlet macaw fledglings have now taken flight over the forests of Guatemala. Scarlet macaws, one of the world's largest parrot ...